Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwyane Wade

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

Peter Garrett

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

Virginia Foxx

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

John Millington Synge

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

Norman Lear

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.

Thom Yorke

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Fantasia Barrino

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

Emma Roberts

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

Ross Kemp

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Regina Spektor

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Paul Wolfowitz

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Erin Morgenstern

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

Ethan Zuckerman

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

Rick Yancey

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

Brett Favre

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Kim Clijsters

It's been a year of many more downs than ups.

Suzy Menkes

I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions.

Samantha Morton

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

Dennis Bergkamp

I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.

Chester Brown

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.

Kim Alexis

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

Lisa See

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

Alice Sebold

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

Erin McKean

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Molly Ringwald

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Shane Warne

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

Jeffrey Archer

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Gabe Newell

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

Eric Shanteau

I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

Christopher Lasch

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Thomas Jefferson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Malthus

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Todd Akin

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Francois Rabelais

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Ray Comfort

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

Goldwin Smith

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Henry L. Stimson

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

Sarah Shahi

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

Ted Turner

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

Damien Hirst

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

Ron Livingston

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

Jon Voight

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

Rick Riordan

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

Andy Summers

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Carrie Brownstein

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

Katarina Witt

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.